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Course: 2025/2026

Construction of legal concepts

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Bachelor in Law (Study Plan 2018) (Plan: 397 - Estudio: 206)

Coordinating teacher: CARRASCO GARCIA, MARIA CONSUELO

Department assigned to the subject: Private Law Department

Type: Electives

ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course:

Semester:

Learning Outcomes

K1: Know basic humanistic contents, oral and written expression, following ethical principles and completing a multidisciplinary training profile. K7: To know the legal tools and instruments applicable to the interpretation and integration of the legal system, as well as to the resolution of conflicts, in the field of Private Law. K12: Understand the ethical dimension of law and the need to act responsibly in the defence of fundamental rights and social justice. S3: Apply the necessary skills to search for information in the different legal sources (legal, jurisprudential and doctrinal). S5: Correctly diagnose legal problems and apply the appropriate tools for their solution. C1: Know how to analyse, elaborate and defend individually a problem in the disciplinary field of the Bachelor's Degree by applying the knowledge, skills, tools and strategies acquired or developed in it. C4: Be able to solve complex legal problems by applying creativity and innovative ideas.

Description of contents: programme

- Introduction to the subject and presentation - 'Lex publica' in Roman law and in currently law: The sources of law - 'Lex privata' in Roman law and in currently law: The concept of contract - Concept of family: Types of persons according their familiar situation - Concept of marriage: Requirements and types. Dissolution of the marriage (divorce) - Succession law: Concept of inheritance and heir (civil inheritance and 'pretoria' inheritance) - Testamentary or voluntary succession: the will. Legal succession (succession 'ab intestato') - Concept of legacy and testamentary trust

Learning activities and methodology

Problem based learning (PBL)

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination/test 50
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Calendar of Continuous assessment

The mark obtained by the student shall take into account: a continuous evaluation, with a value of 50% of the final mark, and an exam at the end of the sessions, which shall entail the 50% left
The mentioned continuous evaluation shall be made taking into account the work of the student during the course, among other things, through the comment of literary and legal texts, watching and commenting films, and the making of written papers and oral statements, whether individually or in groups. The continuous evaluation system requires the student to have attended at least 80% of the sessions.
The final exam (50% of the mark) shall consist of questions made to grade the student's understanding of the theory lessons, as well as his capacity to proceed to the application in practice of the knowledge acquired. 

* To pass the exam it shall be necessary to obtain a minimun of 2.5 points.

Extraordinary call: regulations

Basic Bibliography

Schiavone, A., . The invention of law in the West. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press. 2012 (2005).
Edited by Nasti. F/Schiavone, A.. Jurists and legal science in the history of roman law. Routledge (London and NY)/Giappicchelli (Torino). 2022
Johnston, D., ed. 2015. . The Cambridge companion to Roman law. Cambridge Univ. Press., Cambridge (UK). 2015
Robinson, O. F., . The sources of Roman law: Problems and methods for ancient historians. Routledge, London (UK). 1997
Stein, P., . Roman law in European history. Cambridge Univ. Press, New York. 1999
Tellegen-Couperus, O. E.,. A short history of Roman law. London, Routledge. 1993

Electronic Resources *

Copus Iuris Civilis, · Codex, : https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Anglica/codjust_Scott.htm
Corpus Iuris Civilis · Instituta : https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Anglica/iust_institut_Scott.html
Corpus Iuris Civilis · Novellae : https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Anglica/Novellae_Scott.htm
Corpus Iuris Civilis, · Digesta, : http://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Anglica/digest_Scott.htm

Additional Bibliography

The Digest of Justinian. Edited by Alan Watson. University of Pennsylvania. 2011

(*) Access to some electronic resources may be restricted to members of the university community and require validation through Campus Global. If you try to connect from outside of the University you will need to set up a VPN

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.